1. Mormons urged to back ban on same-sex marriage

Comment #199624 by Justanotheratheist on June 26, 2008 at 4:54 am

ARE THEY COMPLETELY FUCKING MAD?

Yes. Completely, utterly, and totally out of their tiny little befuddled bowls of mashed potatoes masquerading as brains. And I don't mean about the tea or coffee, but about the things that really matter.

What a bunch of plonkers.

2. God hates Mars

Comment #199582 by Justanotheratheist on June 26, 2008 at 3:08 am

God created an enormous universe, loaded with uncountable planets, stars, moons, etc etc. He gave man the imagination to want to know what really goes on out there in the vastness of space...

...and he did it for no reason whatsoever. We must rather stay on this tiny little planet of ours and pray for a cure to cancer.

Bit of a dumb wanker, this god fellow, if you ask me.

3. Car dealership advert tells atheists to 'shut up'

Comment #185871 by Justanotheratheist on May 28, 2008 at 10:38 pm

Did a hurricane blow through a junkyard and put god's BMW together?

No, Joseph Ratzwhathisname organised it for him at a special price. But, from what I'm reading here, a hurricane blowing through a junkyard would assemble a better car than a Ford.

I've never owned one. Are they really that bad?

4. Car dealership advert tells atheists to 'shut up'

Comment #185512 by Justanotheratheist on May 28, 2008 at 2:09 am

eepist wrote

It started out with used donkey salesmen.

Brilliant! I love it.

The obnoxious depths to which theists will plummet seemingly knows no bounds.

By the way, now that we have a German Pope has the value of my Volkswagen gone up? Or does god drive a BMW?

5. Teacher Expelled Over Religion

Comment #162443 by Justanotheratheist on April 17, 2008 at 1:36 am

59. Comment #162419 by jesustweak on April 16, 2008 at 11:09 pm

Quick, order your FREE! "Age of the Planet Earth" disk from Dr. Dino. Makes a great coaster for your favorite alcoholic beverage. If you overindulge, you can put it in the player and see if it makes sense.

Brandy is my tipple of choice, but there isn't enough of it in the world to make any sense out of something which offers "scientific proof of a literal six day creation."

Acrually, I'd prefer to be sober when I let this bullshit wash over me. I want to be able to understand every work with crystal clarity, because it promises to be a real classic. I wouldn't want to miss any of this stunning relevation due to alcohol brain-fogging.

On the other hand, given that there is absolutely fuckall proof of a literal six day creation this may be an extremely short experience. Bring on the brandy, after all.

6. BBC 'too scared to allow jokes about Islam'

Comment #154257 by Justanotheratheist on April 3, 2008 at 2:05 am

Imam Ted, set on an island off the coast of Iran...complete with back-chatting female housekeeper. Oh boy, that would be something. Won't ever happen, though, and you cannot blame the BBC or anyone else from running a mile from Muslim jokes.

It's just too damned dangerous. Even teddy bears aren't safe, remember?

7. Thy will be done

Comment #154251 by Justanotheratheist on April 3, 2008 at 1:46 am

By an elected body participating in it, it automatically becomes an exclusive act. "We are praying to OUR God this week" so the implication is that any decision made is relevant only to the electorate which share those beliefs and not the community as whole (although not necessarily exclusive) and therefore a purely secular affirmation overcomes this, leaving any decision to a political choice not a religious one.

Fair comment. The problem will all official prayer is that it's always OUR god who's being prayed to, this week and every week. In that sense it would be better to do away with all public prayer, but I'm afraid that pigs will fly before that happy day dawns.

For now, I'm happy to shrug it off as harmless bullshit.

8. Thy will be done

Comment #154237 by Justanotheratheist on April 3, 2008 at 12:53 am

If she feels the need to pray to a deity, this can be done in her own time and it should not be an official act.

I agree in principle, but if a minute or two are given over to prayer then I don't think it's any big deal. Prayer may be a complete waste of time and is akin to talking to one's self, but a brief and meaningless interlude of such nonsense can't do much harm.

It was Richard Dawkins who, when asked why he participates in saying grace when the occasion demands, replied that he won't tell a lie but has no objections whatsoever to talking a bit of nonsense.

9. Vatican: Islam surpasses Roman Catholicism as world's largest religion

Comment #153172 by Justanotheratheist on April 1, 2008 at 7:02 am

Perhaps I'm just too rabidly anti-religious

Impossible to be too anti-religious. The more virulent the better, as far as I'm concerned. It is a harmful leftover from ages past, and the more it comes under attack the happier I feel.

Not, unfortunately, that it makes one iota of difference. The whole stupid shedload of crap is here to stay for a very long time, irrespective of how many people are practising one form or another of it.

10. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #150469 by Justanotheratheist on March 27, 2008 at 12:55 am

This is another example of "she lived = ah it was miracle , she died = ah but it was Gods will!"

Therein lies the problem. However hard you bang your head against the wall, you cannot get around that so-called "logic." People like these misguided idiots always have an answer for everything: "God's will."

Until the realization sets in that THERE IS NO SUCH CREATURE AS GOD we can only wait for this unspeakable sort of thing to happen over and over again. And because no proof of god's existence is needed other than what it says in that load of crap called the bible, the free-thinkers of this world will forever be frustrated and angered by incidents like this.

Personally, I would jail the parents and neuter them both just to make certain they never have another child. However, are the parents the real culprits, or does the blame lie with whoever infused them with such idiotic beliefs in the first place? i.e. their own parents, their pastor, Sunday School teachers, etc. etc.

That's the problem. Religion is a sick web of poisonous fantasy that goes back several millenia, and which requires no justification other than its own existence. It will be a very long time before the war against rampant christian idiocy is won, if it ever can be won.

To think that this keeps happening in the world's only superpower is staggering. I like the French system which a previous poster mentioned, but when it comes to thinking of that sort the USA seems to be centuries behind the times.

11. The Secular Conscience

Comment #147320 by Justanotheratheist on March 20, 2008 at 6:41 am

Theology is bunk. A theologian deserves no more respect than an astrologer

Worse, in my opinion. Astrologers don't brainwash children, don't knock on your door trying to convert you with free dogpoop magazines, don't blame homosexuals when there's a flood, and don't spread rumours that condoms intended for poor African nations are deliberately sabotaged.

The list goes on and on. I would put theologians much, much further down the food chain than astrologers. Both advocate forms of mumbo-jumbo, but one is essentially harmless. The other is unspeakable.

12. Jesus saves

Comment #147142 by Justanotheratheist on March 19, 2008 at 11:40 pm

MY OPINION: Science has done more, in its relatively short history, to save and help people than all the religions combined have ever done. Science has done wonders to cure childhood deceases like polio, and more.

Ah, but who created the scientists who did all this...Okay, just joking. I couldn't agree more.

And anyway, if everything was created then who created the polio in the first place? I want to be saved by whoever is responsible for such horrors about as much as I want to be savaged by a pack of hungy pitbull terriers.

13. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #146352 by Justanotheratheist on March 19, 2008 at 1:46 am

I guess children who believe in Santa Claus may be happier than those who do not, but at least they grow out of it.

I am perfectly happy as an atheist, especially as (to paraphrase Richard Dawkins) I know that the life I have here is the only existence I will ever have. I am not waiting for the joys of an afterlife that will never come, so I try and enjoy every minute that I have.

There can be few things sadder than deluded fools eking out a miserable existence, not because circumstances force them to, but by choice in the belief that they will earn their reward after they die. What a collosal waste of the one and only opportunity to be happy.

I would love to believe that one day I will be reunited with loved ones who have passed away. Really, I would. Nothing would make me happier. However, the firm belief that it will never happen means I waste no time thinking about it and get on with the business of enjoying life without superstitious bullshit.

It works. Whatever any half-baked apology of a "study" may suggest to the contrary.

14. New Atheists Are Not Great

Comment #145678 by Justanotheratheist on March 18, 2008 at 1:48 am

Personally, I think the words "religion poisons everything" stands up pretty well without qualification.

It would make a nifty bumper sticker, come to think of it.

15. Richard Dawkins on five of his favorite books

Comment #139489 by Justanotheratheist on March 6, 2008 at 1:36 am

I'm no a science fiction fan. I read tons of fiction, usually of the mass market or "airport" variety.

I do however really enjoy a good "what if" story. Not what would happen if green blobs from Mars invaded the earth, but stories set against the background of historical events that could have happened if things had turned out differently. You know, if the Nazis had won the war (could have, if they'd played their cards better, which thank fuck they didn't) or if the Cuban missile crisis had led to nuclear war.

Thus, amongst favourites would be:
SSGB-Len Deighton
Fatherland-Robert Harris
Archangel-Robert Harris
Resurrection Day-Brendan Dubois

I think it takes real skill to weave a thoroughly realistic story out of situations that nearly arose...but didn't. Harris' depiction of Berlin in a post-war victorious Germany ("Fatherland") gave me goose pimples. The cheap movie that was made of the book should have been shot at birth, on the other hand.

16. How to abandon your God

Comment #139471 by Justanotheratheist on March 6, 2008 at 12:07 am

A god that's nothing specific is undefinable and nothing at all

A god for whose existence there is absolutely no evidence is also nothing at all, but even in the 21st century that won't stop the believers. They just justify it as "faith", and that's that. Switching religions or denominations is just window-dressing.

Except in the wonderful world of Islam, where it can get you killed in thoroughly nasty ways.

17. Fleas on the Horizon: In Defense of God

Comment #138132 by Justanotheratheist on March 4, 2008 at 1:24 am

I have to agree with Diacanu's view that the internet has done a great deal to strip away the bullshit of belief. I had never thought of it in those terms before, but no other invention has allowed the free exchange of ideas on such a scale as the WWW.

Clearly, it must be Satan's handiwork.

Getting back on point (sort of), isn't it amazing how many times we have to be bombarded with essentially the same lame bullshit by the theist brigade. One atheist book requires at least a dozen in refutation, with not one offering one shred of anything remotely new.

Maybe flea authors are in competition to find how many different ways they can conjure up of saying exactly the same f***ing thing. To kill perfectly harmless trees to make these rubbish books should be a crime.

18. State Approves Evolution As 'Scientific Theory'

Comment #130040 by Justanotheratheist on February 20, 2008 at 12:49 am

Evolution is a theory but virgin births, resurrected corpses, and walking on water are facts?

Man, you gotta love it.

19. Atheists An Increasingly Outspoken Minority

Comment #129345 by Justanotheratheist on February 19, 2008 at 2:12 am

My respect for Jodi Foster has gone up even higher, now that I've discovered she's one of "us" and not afraid to say so. Damned pity she's a lesbian, though. That wonderfully husky voice alone can make me go weak at the knees, but I digress.

I didn't realize that Lance Armstrong is an atheist, either. Perhaps all that pedalling up and down the Alps and Pyrenees helped him reach the conclusion that such splendours are the work of billions of years of natural forces and certainly weren't created by the flick of an invisible finger.

I nevertheless remain pissed off at the notion that I need to believe in phantoms in order to do good in my life. I can get along quite fine with believers on the whole, but please don't throw that at me.

20. 'Frog from hell' fossil unearthed

Comment #129341 by Justanotheratheist on February 19, 2008 at 1:53 am

Seriously, now. Isn't it wonderful how we continue to learn new and unexpected things about the world/universe that we live in?

How stifling it must be to ignore all this wonder and cling pathetically to the fairy stories found in a ridiculous book.

Oh well, that's their loss.

21. 'Frog from hell' fossil unearthed

Comment #129320 by Justanotheratheist on February 19, 2008 at 1:30 am

Mmm..I wonder on which of the six days god thought up this beauty.

Oh no, wait. He didn't. He just put the fossil there to test our faith, like a gadzillion other fossils. Yes, that's it. Just in case T Rex etc etc etc wasn't enough to lead us astray from the path of creationism, let's slip in a jumbo sized hopper as well.

He sure does have a pesky sense of humour, this god fellow. Or there again, perhaps he had f**ckall to do with it?

22. Atheism and Violence

Comment #117892 by Justanotheratheist on January 29, 2008 at 11:37 pm

Sorry: that last sentence should have read will this clown answer the $64 million question. My mind was so bamboozled by that torrent of illogixcal sewerage that I couldn't even type straight.

And I write for a living (more or less)!

23. Atheism and Violence

Comment #117891 by Justanotheratheist on January 29, 2008 at 11:35 pm

Such a torrent of verbal garbage to simply come up with the same old crap. It's enough to give me a splitting headache.

If I am reading this nonsense correctly, the suggestion that lack of belief in something must be proof of that something's existence must take the cake in the all-time desperation stakes.

I hope that I have misunderstood, because by that logic there must perforce also be a Father Christmas, an Easter Bunny, a tooth fairy, and an orbiting teapot in space.

Nor can God be proved by rational demonstration. Quite the opposite, in fact. The evidence for his non-existence swamps the so-called evidence of his existence. For now. I'll keep an open mind, but I can't imagine I will ever need to change it.

Lastly, instead of going "gee wow etc." this clown will actually answer the S64 million question: who did create god?

24. The God Delusion: Now Available in US Paperback

Comment #114813 by Justanotheratheist on January 22, 2008 at 11:58 pm

Nothing to be embarrassed about, October. This can be a life-changing experience whose effects take time to sink in. As I have said before, it isn't the same for everybody.

And let us be grateful that we live in an era when we can have discussions of this sort without fear of being cooked alive by those kindly priests...!

25. The God Delusion: Now Available in US Paperback

Comment #114311 by Justanotheratheist on January 21, 2008 at 10:47 pm

It's only natural that it would take time to shrug off something that has been drummed into us as absolute fact for so long. That is the very reason why religion targets the young.

Old habits sometimes die hard.

26. The God Delusion: Now Available in US Paperback

Comment #113974 by Justanotheratheist on January 21, 2008 at 5:51 am

October, it is probably a phase. It's impossible to generalize because we are all different, but chances are you will get used to the idea. I know I did, in the middle of reading the God Delusion. I was 99% of the way there before, but Richard's fantastic book finally pushed me to full time non-belief.

That is religion's great hook. It wants you to think exactly what you are thinking, that life without faith is pointless. Actually, I am sure you will soon discover the exact opposite is true, that life without the baggage of religious tripe is highly fulfilling and far more enjoyable. When the realization takes a firm hold that this life is all we are ever going to get, you will feel that a great weight has been lifted. It has nothing to do with "growing up", in my view.

I think the "definition" of the Bible which appears in the picture attached to tieInterceptor's post is an absolute classic, by the way. Not only is it absolutely hilarious, it pretty much sums up everything in a few sentences. It made my day!

27. Richard Dawkins: Author of the Year!

Comment #96864 by Justanotheratheist on December 11, 2007 at 2:56 am

I am new to this forum, hence my late response, but all I can say is...very well done, it is richly deserved!

The knack of expressing an idea in such a way that it immediately makes sense to the reader is not a gift all writers possess, but our hero certainly does. Even rarer is the gift of being able to make the reader think, "hey, I knew that already but I just wasn't aware of it."

Dawkins does both, on subjects that are of huge importance. He deserves whatever awards there are going, whether they involve a visit to Buckingham Palace to receive a knighthood, or not.

28. Bad Faith Awards: Vote for the winner now

Comment #94543 by Justanotheratheist on December 6, 2007 at 1:06 am

It's interesting to realize that Norris would be an infinitely worse president than he is an actor, which is an achievement in itself!

However, although all the candidates (except one, of course) have great credentials, I cannot go against Joe the Pope. My reasoning is simple: given his position, he has the capacity to wreak vastly more damage than everyone else on the list combined.

Chuck would be my second pick. Poor misguided sod should go back to making unwatchable movies.